Gary Price of ResourceShelf informs me [Philipp Lenssen] that there are new cases of
censorship in Google Germany, but this time, in Google Groups, as
Chilling Effects shows. Considering that Google has a quasi-monopoly
on the Usenet archive, this is unsettling, especially as all of this
happens in the background and we don't know which posts have been
removed. (We do know the reason for the removal; it supposedly
contained hate speech/ "Volksverhetzung," e.g. promoting Nazi
opinions). In China, Google only blocks a path to the censored sites,
and the Chinese gov't is responsible for blocking the sites
themselves; with Google Groups, Google actually holds the newsgroup
content on their servers.